Alexander youdelman



A. YOUDELMAN.

TIP ATTACHING IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 11,1919.

1,326,820. Patented Dec. 30,1919.

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TIP ATTACI-IING IMPLEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 30, 1919.

Application filed July 17, 1919. SerialNo. 311,473.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER YoUDnL- MAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Tip-Attaching Implement, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to tip attaching implements such as shown and described in the application for Letters Patent of the United States, Serial No. 288,969, filed by me on April 10, 1919.

The object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved tip attaching implement arranged to enable an unskilled person to quickly and securely attach metallic tips to the ends of strings such as are used for lacing shoes, corsets and other articles. Another object is to provide an implement which is exceedingly simple and durable in construction and cheap to manufacture.

lVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is an enlarged side elevation partly in section of the tip attaching implement; v

Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the same;

Fig. 3 is a cross section of the same on the line 3 -23 of Fig. 1;

Fig. '41- is a perspective view of a tip blank;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a tip in position on the end of a string;

Fig. 6 is a reduced plan view of the blank for forming the combined frame, fixed jaw and handle;

. Fig. 7 is a similar view of the bank for forming the hand lever; and

Fig. 8 is a similar view of the blank for forming the movable j aw.

The frame 10, the fixed jaw 11 and the handle 12 of the tip attaching implement is formed from a single piece of sheet metal,

and the fixed jaw 11 comprises a flat topped member or plate 13 having at its front end a return bent member 14 parallel to the plate 13, the bend forming the jaw 11. The sides of the return bent member 14c are provided with upwardly extending lugs 15 engaging at their upper ends the sides of the plate 13 whereby the plate 18, the return bent member 14: and the lugs 15 form a guideway for a movable jaw 16 to slide in, the front end of the mo able jaw 16 being provided with a concave recess. 17 which coacts with the inner concave face of the jaw 11 formed by the bend, as above explained. The jaw 16 underlies the plate 13 and the frame 10 and has its rear end 18 made narrow and fitting between two lugs 20 depending integrally from the sides of the frame 10 thus providing a guideway for the rear end 18 of the movable jaw 16. The sides of the frame 10 and its handle 12 are provided with integral depending strengthening ribs .merging with the lugs 20 thus reinforcing the same as well as the handle 12.

The rear end of the reduced portion 18 of the movable jaw 16 is provided with a depending log 25 extending into recesses 26 formed in struck-up lugs 27 rising integrally from the forward end of a hand lever 28 made of a single piece of sheet metal. The lugs 27 are mounted to turn on a transversely extending pivot 30 secured in the lugs 20. The hand lever 28 is disposed opposite the handle 12 and the sides of the lever 28 are provided with struck-up ribs 29 merging with the lugs 27 to strengthen the lever and its lugs 2?. Normally the movable aw 16 is held in open position by the hand lever 28,'which latter is pressed by a spring 4C0, preferably coiled on the pivot 30 intermediate the lugs 27 and with one end 41 of the spring bearing against the under side of the handle 12 and with the other end 4C2 of the spring 10 bearing on top of the hand lever 28 intermediate the strengthening ribs 29.

WVhen the movable jaw 16 is in normal rearmost position, a large opening is provided between the jaw 11 and the upturned lugs 15 to permit the convenient insertion of a lace tip blank 50 and one end 51 of a string 52. When this has been done, the operator swings the hand lever 28 toward the handle 12 thus moving the jaw 16 forwardly and causing the tip blank to be closed around the end 51 of the string 52 thus providing the latter with the tip.

Qn releasing the lever 28, the spring returns the latter to normal position thus retracting the movable jaw 16 and thereby allowing the removal of the attached tip from the j aw.

It is understood that by making the frame 10, the movable jaw 11 and the handle 12 together with the lugs 20, the return bent member 1+1; and the lugs 15 of one single piece of sheet metal, an exceedingly strong implement is provided especially as the hand lever and the movable jaw 16 are also made of single pieces.

It will "further be noticed that the several parts can be readily assembled without requiring the employment of highly skilled labor, thus permitting of manufacturing the implement at a very low cost.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A. tool 01 the type described, comprising a single piece of sheet metal fashioned into a frame, a fixed jaw and a handle, of which the jaw extends forwardly from the frame and the handle extends rearwardly therefrom, the fixed jaw having at its for ward end a return bent member provided at its sides with struck-up lugs extending to the sides of the fixed jaw to provide a guide, the'said frame having a guide, a movable jaw slidaloly engaging the said fixed jaw guide and the said frame guide, and means mounted on the said "frame to actuate the said movable jaw.

2. A tool of the type described, comprising a one-piece frame, a fixed jaw and handle, the said fixed jaw having at its forward end a return bent member provided at its sides with upturned lugs to form a guideway between the jaw and the return bent member the said if ame having at its sides struck-up lugs forming another guideway, a movable jaw in the form of a plate slidably engaging the said guideway on the fixed jaw, the said movable aw having a narrow rearward extension slidably engaging the said guideway formed by the said frame lugs, the said extension terminating in an angular flange, a pivot held on the said frame lugs, a handled lever having side lugs engaging the said pivot, the said lever side lugs having notches engaging the said angular flange, and a spring on the said pivot and engaging the said frame handle and the said lever.

ALEXANDER YOUDELMAN. 

